1. Cathleen Sabine Mann RP ROI, styled the Marchioness of Queensberry from 1926 to 1946, was a British portrait painter and costume designer for film.
15 Facts About Cathleen Mann
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Cathleen Mann was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
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Cathleen Mann was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 31 December 1896 to the Scottish portrait painter Harrington Mann, the second of his three daughters.
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Cathleen Mann's mother was the portraitist and interior director Florence Sabine Pasley.
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Harrington Mann gave Cathleen painting lessons in his London studio, as did the portrait painter Ethel Walker.
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Walker continued to tutor Mann even while Cathleen was studying at Slade School of Fine Art in London.
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Cathleen Mann's work was displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Musee du Luxembourg, and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
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Cathleen Mann eventually became a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
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Cathleen Mann's work included The Iron Duke starring George Arliss and Things to Come starring Raymond Massey.
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Cathleen Mann married Francis Douglas, 11th Marquess of Queensberry on 18 March 1926, becoming his second wife.
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Cathleen Mann was known as the Marchioness of Queensberry until their divorce in 1946.
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Cathleen Mann befriended the artist Matthew Smith and was influenced by his work.
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Cathleen Mann committed suicide in 1959 by taking an overdose of sleeping pills in her studio on Montpelier Walk, Brompton.
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Cathleen Mann's son said she had recently been diagnosed with another attack of tuberculosis, although the doctor did not think it would be serious.
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Cathleen Mann left a note stating that she was very worried about the illness.